From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: axp question 'bout uname voodoo
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:44:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ejnlxh4j.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FE80FD.9090109@linux-kernel.at> (Oliver Falk's message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:24:29 +0100")
Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at> writes:
> Hi!
>
> We have a discussion on alpha mailinglist at the moment, because of uname -mpi.
>
> AFAIK, uname -m should do some glibc call, which calls kernel, right?
>
> However, I have two machines:
>
> AS1000A:
> [root@tyskie ~]# uname -mpi && cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model
> alpha alpha alpha
> cpu model : EV56
>
> DS10:
> [root@gosa ~]# uname -mpi && cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep model
> alpha alpha alpha
> cpu model : EV67
>
> Shouldn't uname rport alphaev67 and alphaev56? Maybe it's just a .config
> problem. Maybe the kernel needs to be compiled for the different sub-arches!?
>
> Any help would be great.
The kernel uname function at least does not have fields that
report processor or hardware platform.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-19 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-19 12:24 Oliver Falk
2007-03-19 17:44 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-03-20 8:17 ` Oliver Falk
2007-03-20 16:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
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